v6.0.0-alpha.3

✨ Features

• Make local query scratch the default (@sdd)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Remove broken dot product dist metric and associated code (@sdd)

⚡️ Performance

• Alternate path to avoid wasted calcs on descent (@sdd)

• Add IS_SIGNED assoc value to Axis (@sdd)

• Dist1 on Manhattan and Chebyshev use saturating_dist (@sdd)

• Improved offset update for Chebyshev and Manhattah (@sdd)

• Use fused linear insertion for threshold vec results (@sdd)

• Tune sorted and unsorted threshold vec limits (@sdd)

🤖 CI

• Harden pre-release string updater workflow against no changes (@sdd)

• Publish custom benchmark reports (@sdd)

• Add bench chart justfile tasks (@sdd)

• Fix benchmark workflow bootstrap (@sdd)

• Derive benchmark key without just (@sdd)

• Pass benchmark args to just correctly (@sdd)

• Pass benchmark recipe arguments positionally (@sdd)

• Authenticate initial benchmark pages push (@sdd)

• Rank featured chart by relative change (@sdd)

• Add distance metric ISA matrix (@sdd)

• Fix distance metric ISA benchmark builds (@sdd)

• Simplify benchmark workflows (@sdd)

• Fix benchmark workflow shellcheck (@sdd)

• Suggest benchmarks for performance-sensitive PRs (@sdd)

• Use heuristic benchmark suggestions (@sdd)

• Allow benchmark suggestion comment updates (@sdd)

• Add leaf strategy benchmark variant (@sdd)

• Allow org members to trigger benchmark runs (@sdd)

• Clarify benchmark run names (@sdd)

• Split nightly debug and release tests (@sdd)

🧹 Chore

• Bump actions/setup-node from 6 to 7 (@dependabot[bot], Signed-off-by:dependabot[bot] support@github.com)

• Update las requirement in the cargo-dependencies group (@dependabot[bot], Signed-off-by:dependabot[bot] support@github.com)